Let's get Josie! He'll build anything: The Thomas brothers, two Cub Scouts in Joplin Pack 77 in Joplin, Mo., were tasked with constructing birdhouses for tornado survivors. So they enlisted little brother Josiah, 5, to do the "fun" work.

A dog named Peanuts goes a little nuts in the snow in Pottsville,... Photo-4065040.55496 - SFGate

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Bracing dip: An Orthodox believer plunges into icy waters on the eve of the Epiphany holiday in Pilnitsa, Belarus. Thousands of Christians jumped into holes cut in ice, braving freezing temperatures, to mark Epiphany.

You're hired, girl! Susan Sweeney Crum holds her kitty, Motor, inside her barn in Louisville, Ky. Sweeny Crum got Motor through the Kentucky Humane Society's new Working Cats program, in which prospective owners can adopt felines to live in barns, warehouses, stables or garages. The cats "work" in the rodent eradication business.

Journalist gunned down: Thousands of Turks gather in front of the Istanbul offices of the Armenian newspaper Agos during a commemoration ceremony for slain journalist Hrant Dink. Dink, one of the most prominent voices of Turkey's shrinking Armenian community, was killed by a gunman Saturday. He had campaigned for reconciliation but was hated by Turkish nationalists for calling the World War I massacres of Armenians genocide.